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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-15
From WASHINGTON.

TIE annual report of the Secretary Of the
Treasury on the 9TH states that the receipts
OF the Government for the last fiscal year
were 1871. fO3. 277, and the expenditures
SI15. s3j. 42S There was an increase in
the rece p.s Of S3I, 1853, $50 over those of
the proceed NJ year. and the expenditures
were increased by So. 449. OIL The reve-
nues for the present year are estimated at
$3.50, 900 900 and the expenditures at
S3I6. SI7.7S
A GENERAL Christian conference under
the auspices Of the Evangelical Alliance of
the United States commenced at Washing
ton on the 18th.
The wool growers and wool-dealers in an
nual session at Washington on the 9TH Wig
orOusly protested against that portion of
The Presld snt's message which recommends
a reduction in the customs duties on wool
The Chief OF the Secret Service division
of the Treasury shows IN his annual report
on the 9TH thai there were $50 persons ar
rested by the officers OF the service during
the year for violation of the laws against
cOuntsrfeiting, etc OF this number sew
enty were convicted Counterfeiters at
present seemed to be devoting their atten-
tion almost exclusively 10 silver coin.
AT meeting OF the National Republican
Committee in Washington on the sth Chi
OF June as the time for holding the next
National Republican convention
TIE SecrctaryO- the Navy in his annual
report on the Ssh says the appropriation for
the Department for the last fiscal year
amounted to Sl3, 80, OOO and the balance
available at the end OF that period was
1891. 500, which has been reduced by De
oember l to Sl6i, 500. The appropriations
for the current fiscal year amount TO
S26. Is, QUO, and the estimates for the
year ending June 30. 1859. to 500. APT, 900
THERE were 23S business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th against 2l5 the previous seven
days
CHAIRMAN JONES, OF the Republican Ma
tiOnal Committee. issued a cal on the 9th
for the Republican National convention, to
be held in Chicago June 10. 1858, TO nOmi-
nae candidates for PTcsid- mt and Vice
Pres dent OF the United States
THE exchanges at tventy-six leading
clearing hous in the United States during
The week ended on the 10Th aggregated
81, 029 2I2, Ill, against 81, lib, 277, 100
the previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1856 the decrease
amounted to 1873 per cent
DURING the week ended on the 10th the
issue of standard silver dollars was S72l,-
OSI. which is 500 O62 greater than that of
the corresponding week of last year
TIE belief prevailed on the 18th that the
Fisheries Commission would not ate llpt to
formulate a general treaty. and that they
would try only to reach an agreement on a
protocol defining anew the meaning of GER
tain clauses of the treaty of 1918.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Evil is in antagonism with all crea-
ton.
"A coquette is a woman 'thout any
heart that makes fool o man 'thout
any head.
If a woman only possessed the
happy faculty of talking out If two
corners of her mouth at the same time,
there would be a good deal said on both
sides. PHILADELPHIA Herald.
We would have life that Others
might be helped to live sweetly, and
power that thought and liberty might
be protected and encouraged.-Ponl-
sr0y's AdUance Thought.
"A man has been arraigned in a
New York court for robbing plumber.
1t is supposed that the gentleman in
vited the plumber to dinner. and th,h
refused to pay him for the time it .Ook
him to eat it Yonkers Statesm an.
First countryman in the city
''Where are you going for dinnerP'
Second countryman = ITO the Gill
house. l saw one of their bills de
kitchen, and it says that dinner lasts
from leven O'Clock till half-past
three"
"A man who hath no virtue in HIM
self ever envieth virtue in others; for
mems minds will either feed upon their
own good. or upon others evil; and
who wanteth the one will prey upon
the other.-Lord Bacon.
Hotel clerk-"No, sir, we can't ac-
commodate you. You have neither
baggage nor money" 81 know
haven't, but | came to town in a
fleighi-car. and there is considerable
coal dust in my hair" well, comb it
out carefully and that will do.-Ne-
braskd State Journal
Another Rival
ALAS = sighed the mule as he wiggled his ear,
And brushed from his eyelash great sparkling
why should they prefer that burlesquer to me,
When am much better kicker than She
-FasAiaqt0a critic.
-Customer-"Did you notice that
man who just went out changed the
price cards in those cigar boxes, and
then paid you ten cents apiece for those
twenty-five cent cigars?" Dealer
W. YES Il ubllCcu iidls bhts btcoo 9Dut
soul. it makes no difference to me. Both
boxes are the same. "-Judge.
An old colored minister in New
England invariably begins his sermons
with this sentences Brethren. my ser
mon is bssted on the following text. y
1t is 70 be feared that the sermons of
some OF his white brethren sometimes
have not even that slight attachment
to the text -Congr sgatioHalist.
My son. said careful and OBJ
servant f;.ther, '.liye an honest life and
yen will preserve your self-respect.
though you may fail to win the respect
of others. But if in an evil hour you
should deviate from the path Of recti-l
tude struggle to escape detection until
you have sailed down enough money to
purchase Justice. Don't make q mis-
take and take too little; justice comes
high. ~ T. Tribune.
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THE EAST.

IL New York City W & II. Chalmers
dealers in linen. failed on the 18th for $780,
600 and Issae Hayes. wholesale liquor
dealer, failed for 1925, 900
A FIRE in Great Bend, v Y. destroyed
several Of the best business houses on the
Sth The loss was heavy.
NEW rial was denied Johann Most, the
New York Anarchist convicted of incendiary
speech, on the Sth, and he was sentenced
to Imprisonment in the penitentiary for one
year
AT a meeting on the Sth of the National
Committee OF the Union Veteran Legion at
Pittsburgh, Pa, it was voted to hold the
next National meeting at Youngstown, D. +,
February Do next
The Connecticut Prohibitionists met in
State convention on the Slh at New Haven
and adopted a platform which declares
that the liquor question IS the most impOr-
tant political issue of the day and asserts
the necessity of a third National parry.
Delegates 10 the National convention were
chosen
OS the oh the tableware workmen in
nineteen nint-glsss factories at Pittsburgh.
Pa, TO the number of fourteen hundred
were ordered to rike because the rules and
scale adopJed by the manufacturers did not
suit them
The steamer Algiers struck and SINK the
schooner Nellie & Jernell of Lewes. Del.
on the oh, three Of the latter's crew being
drowned
JOHANN MOsT's case has been appealed to
the New York Supreme Court and the An
archist was released on the 9th in 50, 900
baiI
HENRY GEORGE decided on the 10th not to
be a caniidat tor the Pres dency next year,
and not 10 put the Labor party into the
c4mpag On.
REy. CHARLES BERRY. of London. declined
the call to Plymouth Church. Brooklyn. on
the iO5l, alleging Is his reason for so doing
the opportunity that Is opened to him OF
dong national work in England
SAMUEL SPENCER was on the i0-h elected
10 succeed LOberJ Garre55 as president of
the Baltimore K Ohio railroad
BIZ fall OF a car IN the shaft of n coal
mine in Luzerne. Pa, on the 10th three
and others seriously injured
FIRE on the I0tn destroyed W. G. Pen
uypacker's barrel factory at Philadelphia
Loss, SIUO. COO
MRS J0IS JACOB AsToR. wife OF the mill
iouaire. died on the 18th at New York, aged
sixJy-one years
TIE loss of the ship Alfred Watts. bound
@ Liverpool from Philad .lphia, was report
ID Ga the I2th Twenty five persons were
drowned
IT Wis said on the 18TH that the new
high-liceuse law ia Pennsylvania would
drive many saloon-keepers out Of business
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LATER,

Mn. PowDERLY is seriously i'll from hem
ORA &c OF the lungs.
JUDGE Brewer is presiding in the United
States Circuit Court at st. Paul.
SAND suitable for the manufacture of
glass has been discovered near WinOna,
MINI.
THE trial of Assistant Cashier Hopkins OF
the Fidelity bank, IS in progress at Ciucin-
natl. Ohio.
}. Z. HESDRY, managing editor of the
Helena, Mont, Independent, died suddenly
ON the 18th, from violent attack of typhoid
fever. He was a bright young journalist
BY the breaking of a sled stake while
driving load of wood down a steep hill,
near Anoka, Mimi, young farmer named
Punt, was instantly killed, on the 18th.
THE mill and the elevator of the Warren
Manufacturin Company, at Warren, MINI.
burned this even ng OF the 18th. Loss
$4,000. lightcinsurance. 5000 bushels OF
oats were burned.
THE Senate Elections committee
unanimously admit Faulkner OF West
Virginia to the seat TO which he was
elected 10y the l4egisls ture, excluding Lucas
the appointee OF the Governor
AT Point Pleasant, w. Va, on Sunday
Henry Fawcett and his wife went to church,
leaving his three children locked up at
home. When the parents returned to the
house IL was in ashes, and the children all
burned to death.
AT Dogwood, Wis or the 18th, in a dis
reputable house, Charles Grace was fatally
shot by Alice W .lliams, the proprletoress,
whom he brutally knocked down, for pro
tecting Ms. Grace from the abuse of her
husband,
CONGRESSMAN Knute Nelson If Aiisnesots,
has short tariff bill, or, rather, free-list
bill which he proposes to introduce at the
first call of states in the house. Its purpose
is % put lumber, coal, salt and other staples
on the free list
HARRY BELL, a young man about - years
of age became involved IN night with
| Norwegian in saloon at Fergus Falls,
Mimi, Monday night. During the row
| Bell strueS the Norwegian with a STICK and
broke his skull. IL is feared that the man
will die. Bell is under arrest
ArAppleton, Mimi, on the 18th, Mr.. and
Mrs W. A Mattice, died at almost the same
moment Mrs. NJ had been suffering
prolonged illness, but her husband was
suddenly cut down by bilious fever after
short illness. MIR. Mattice was hardware
merchant and prominent citizen
FRoN Waterloo. Ia, a United States
! Express company package, containing 500,
disappeared about two weeks a while IN
l trs Rsit, but was traced to Ralph Miller,
Chicago, ST. Paul q ksnsas City Vest Side
/ station in Waterloo. Mailer resigned and left
town the next day al TIE loss was ois-
covered. 1t is said there Is woman II the
case.
SENATOR DAVIS OF Minnesota, on Tues
| day. introduced IN the Senate ills granting
| the right to ths Hu nth, Rainy Lake &
| Southwestern railroad to construct a bricge
! across the Red River OF the North; 10 place
/ Capt Whe Ter. OF the regular army, who
/ has had forty wears Of service. upon the re-
! tired list with the rank OF major, and two
private pensioa bills.
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MICHIGAN.

Frank Rebec. young butcher of Ceder
River, who was Tilted by his sweetheart,
committed suicide the other night by blow
ing out his brains.
Wells Burt, Detroit millionaire. died of
heart-disease while at lunch a few days
ago. He WIS born near Buffalo. " Y, in
1918.
The Muskegon Home for the Friendless
nas received $500 each from the Chicago &
West Michigan railroad and the Thayer
Lumber Company.
1t is alleged that the State is prosecuting
claims aga. INST the Government on account
of swamp ands which will bring s., 900, 600
in the State treasury, and that further
suits will be instituted against certain rail-
roads to recover $50, 600 acrss OF land
which they hold through grants OF Con-
gress
Emily Smith, aged seventy-two years, has
been sentenced TO three months imprson-.
ment in Detroit for robbing little girls Of
their dolls
The new stroll Crematorium has begun
operations. The body OF Mrs Barbara
Schoor of Millersburg, o., was the first one
treated
Malignant diphtheria has broken out in
the orphan asylum connected with St Jo-
seph's Convent at Marquette
Daring the season Just ended the Duluth,
South shore & Atlantic shipped from Mar
quette 53.O tons of ore 10 local furnaces
Lake shipments from Lake Superior IN mes
are now ended, the total shipment being
1896 $50 tons, ar increase over last yen
of 903, 449 tons
c. c. Whitney 4 Co IS cracker bakery in
Bay City was burned few days ago Loss,
81, 1000; insurance, s.. 900
steady flow OF natural gas was n
the other dsy, at a depth of on ~
feet, on the land owned by D. L. campbell
seven miles north of Detroit
Mine officials report the Calumet & HecIa
fire az last under complete control
Some Genesee County farmers are pre-
dieting that wheat will be one dollar per
bushel before another harvest
A broom factory is one of the recent adj
ditions TO Traverse City's manufacturing
industries
At the Cleveland iron mine, near Ishpem-
ing, Fred d .sh was crushed beneath fall
ing mass of rock and killed a few DAYS ago
Jacob Johnston, a well-tO-dO farmer of
Brandon township, Oakland County, was
found dead the other morning under load
Of lumber
W liam Splinter pleaded guilty in Bay
City the other day to incest with his daugh-
ter Ameia, aged sixteen years
Eugene NJ Converse, Battle Creek law
yer, has p eaded guilty TO embezzlement
Charles MatthewsOn's barn, near Ravenna.
containing hay, grain, farming implements,
six cows and two horses was burned the
other morning. Loss, 81, 600
Over five hundred barrels of flour con
cealed in the brush on Bots Blanc Island
were found by the United States Marshal the
other day. who went there for the purpose
of recovering all floating property picked up
from the wrecked steamer Albany
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
FiFTIETH CONGRESS-.

Tar d * "a SONNhEO0H
WEDNESDAY, Dec I'm the Senate a
reso luton 70 ascertain whether any patent
had been issued for the manufacture of
sugar from sorghum was adopted No other
business was transacted The House was
not in session
THURSDAY, Dec b "A few department
communications were read in the Senate.
after which an adjournment was taken to
the 18th In the House, few resolutions
were introduced relating to amendment of
the rules, and then the body adjourned to
the 18Th
MONDAY, Dec. l2-In the Senate 594
bills and joint resolutions were intro
duced, among them being the following:
For pensions to all who served during the
war; 10 prohibit the manufacture. impOrta-
ton or sale of intoxicating liquors in the
United States; to appropriate Sl26 377,-
500 for sea-colst defenses; TO establish
postal telegraph; for The admission OF Da-
kota and Washington Territories rs States;
tor a constitutional amendment in relation
burse the several States for in-
tercsJ paid on war taxes; to prohibit the
letting Of Government work 70 contractors
employing convict labor; for a constitu-
tiOnal amendment extending the right OF
suffr ge; requiring ten years residence be-
fore foreigners can declare their intention
10 become ci1 zens of the United States, ex-
cept that in the case of those arriving before
they reach the age of twenty-one years
residence of six years only shall be required;
spprOpriating 81. Obs 600 to erect public
buildings; to reimburse prisoners of war
and nurses who were in the military or
naval service during the war of the rebel
lion; TO restrict the ownership of real es-
tate in the Territories 10 American citizens;
to provide for the inspection of meats
for expectation, and to prevent the impOr-
tariOn of adulterated articles The CON-
mittees were announced In the House
Speaker Carlisle requested that the men,
hers select the Committee on Elections
number Of propositions to amend the rules
were submitted. to be referred when the
committees were appointed
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The Term lncandescence.


The term incandescence, so much
used at present, indicates white heat.
or the glowing whiteness OF a body
caused by intense heat The little
glass bulbs. remarks writer on this
subject, with their brilliant horseshoe
of glowing flament. attract no more
attention than the Pickering gas-jet-
But the facts about the gas-jet are. un-
like those of the electric lamp. easily
and generally understood. Both pro-
duce light by ineandescence, the mole
cules of gas being rendered incan-
descent by the heat generated by the
combustion of other molecules. The
blue portion of every gas-fame is
where combustion is taking place, ard
from there comes the heat which keeps
the rest N state of incandescence.
With the electric lamp it is the heat
produced by the friction OF an electric
current. compelled to go through fine
carbon fiiament, which raises that fla
ment to a condition of incandescence.
which produces light electrical Re
& ci0.
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U. S. GuNnoAr. No. 2.

seaworthy and not worth repairing, and ordered
sold, having had put upon her between 1913 and
1887 the add tional sum of S57T,7l61.. She
brought S}4 525 at tAe auction sale. She had
cost the Government 50, $4,000 in round mum.
bers and had done about ten years Of active
service, outside OF repair shops and navy
yards"
OF naval reserve the report says! THE de
partment has informed tself fully of the differ
ent systems of organization for coast defense
and naval reserves at present in force in foreign
eountr es, and is prepared to formulate gener
al plan for q similar organization to meet the
requirements and cona tions OF our own institu'
tions. II should resemble in organization that
Of the mil TIA or National guard, rest upon the
foundation of local interest, contemplate the
employment and rapld mobilization OF steamers
enrolled on an aux Larry navy list, and be calcu-
lated to produc e the best results upon com
paratively small National expenditure"
The rest of the report is devoted to de
tailed description of the condit IN and situa
on CT the several vessels belonging TO our
navy, 10 the receipts and expen 1itures OF the
department Ga balance OF sl64. g.. Y on hand
and available on December u, 10 estimates and
appropriations for aext year lover s2,001,OO0 less
than for the current year,, to sales made OF
naval vessels, 70 develop ments made in speed
of vessels throughout the world, and 10 reports
OF the Admiral and the several bureaus OF the
lepartment
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The Northern Pacific earnings for Novenl-
Der show the largest increase in the history
of the road, the total increase over No
vemLer of last year being $500, $40
The winter bridge of the Burlington 4
Nor hern railroad at Wnona is completed
and trains are now crossing The bridge is
nineteen hundred feet long
Robert Holmes, a farmer living twelve
miles north of Perham, was found dead in
the woods near his home recently His
gun lay beside him and was discharged. IL
is thought that he accidentally shot himself
while out hunting.
Special Agent Lightner, who has been at
the Ss5etcn Agency since August, has com
pleted the work of allottng lands in sew
crafty to Indians of that reserve.
John Mccarthy tramp who was arrested
recently in st Paul on a charge of vagrancy,
had in the pocket of his clothes over 300
in currency. He was arrested while impor-
tuning man for twenty five cents TO buy
a meal
The Sleeping car companies have always
seen to it that the traveller who happens to
be alone in section when he has paid for
the lower berth only shall gain as little as
possible by his good fortune The upper
berth Il ust be let down in order to prevent
him from getting more than the worth OF
his money, though it makes not the Slight
est d ference TO the company or its en-
plOyes. The S-ats Railway Commission has
addressed a circular to railroad managers in
the State poin ing out the absurdity of this
practice and calling for it's abolition.
A daughter of Henry Kendall, of Roches-
ter. seven years cd, while rum ng in
field recently struck barbed-wire fence,
the barb penetrating her forehead and kill
ing her.
The hosiery mill of l. E Keatly, at Con-
nersville, was closed few days ago, Mr.
Keatly making am assignment Liabilities
$40 900, with assets aggregating similar
sum.
Israel Ryder, an old Indian trader on the
Upper Reseau river, was shot the other
night by Charles Copnass, an Indian
marauder from the Canadian side.
Matthias Hauer shot and killed his wife a
few days ago at st Paul, but claimed it was
accidental.
The report of the committee appointed to
investigate the cherges against ex-Warden
Reed, OF the illwater penitentiary, wholly
exonerates him.
Thomas Nephew accidentally shot and
instantly killed young man at Burberry
the other day Nephew said he thought the
victim was u bear.
citizen of Fergus Falls has perfected a
machine with which passenger coaches can
be heated without the use of fire, steam or
electricity, and which will not cause fire
in case of railway accident
Lou" Murray was convicted at Buffalo
the other day OF attempting to assault Miss
Mary Sylvester, and was sentenced to ten
years at h I'D labor The young woman es-
capped from Murray by jumping from third
story, sustaining severe injuries
James fitzpatrick. one of the largest land
owners and most extensive farmers and
stock raisers in Southwestern Minnesota,
made an assignment recently. His liabtli-
ties were $50, 000 and his nominal assets
S35, 900
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John Scoltz, a farmer near Sioux Falls
was indicted the other day by the grand
jury for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses The news was conveyed to his wife.
who was crazed with grief, and soon after
wards she hung herself
Proceedings were recently ordered against
NJ A. Upton, of Latin, for cutting timber
from public land
at a meeting in WateTtOwn the other
evening S25, 600 was raised In aid OF the
project to establish Methodist Episcopal
College there
Great excitement was caused recently by
the killing of mammoth panther near
Washburn 1t was the largest beast of the
kind ever seen in those parts. measuring
eight feet from tip of nose TO tip of tail
At traubvllle recently Dsniel McClellen
and D. J, Jones were found suffocated by
coal gas.
Governor Church has pardoned John
Lacey from the Sioux Falls PenitentaIy
Lacey was convicted of granddaughter in
Mitchell in 1882 and sentenced 10 twenty
years
Warrants were issued at Pierre the other
day TOR the arrest of twenty Indians OF the
Winnebago reservation on charge of as
sauit with deadly weapons. These Indians
sold wood to the whites received the money
for It. and then drew tn Fir revolvers and re-
fused TO let them depart with the wood
A grader named Miller, employed on the
Duluth. Wilmar & SIOUX Falls railroad grade
at Pals2de, took a can OF dynamite into
the blacksmith-shop recently to thaw it
out, vita the usual result Ais body was
terribly mulilate1
W and f. Rediske were arrested at Black
River Falls, Wis. recently, charged with
dsposing of 50. 900 worth Of mortgaged
property at Hillsboro, Trail County, and
Ascending with the procseds
Nine persons were injured in a railroad
wreck a mile west Of Iroquois the other
afternoon.
Major A J. Simmons, president Of the
Board Of Trustees Of the Dakota School Of
Mines, says the tin mines of the Black Hills
are attracting more attention than any
other m neral product in the United States
He also says that ledge of gold was re-
Gently discovered IN the Golden Summit
mine in Palmer's guIch, eighteen miles
from Rapid City. which viii gun 100000
to the on, and is the richest streak yet
found in the Black Hills,
II A Gossso has resigned ais Office as
sheriff OF Fall r yer County and has been
succeeded by sam Noses
So ne uneasiness is felt in the Territory
because the supply OF coal is so low that
il would be insufficient for the wants OF the
people in case OF q protracted spell Of coid
weather.